System not accessible after installation of Kubuntu. SOLVED!

[Ged]

Bas Roufs wrote:
> Hello Karl and Ged.
>
> Below you can see the set of ideas by means of which I managed to solve 
> the problem. Thank you very much!
>
> Respectfully Yours,
>
> Bas.
>
>
>   
>>> When you boot your laptop select recovery mode in the grub menu.  This 
>>> will boot you into a text console as the root user (i.e. super user).
>>>
>>> To check that you got the username right when you installed, enter the 
>>> command 'ls /home'.
>>>
>>> To reset the password, enter the command 'passwd xx' where xx is your 
>>> username.  You will be prompted to enter a new password twice.
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> P.S. To get into normal graphical mode, you can use the 'reboot' 
>> command, but it is faster to do '/sbin/init 2'.
>>   
>>     
I tried that when it happened to me and it didn't work.
But at least I found out why. DOH !!!

Ged.